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title: If my brother hits any creature I catch it quicker than any dog can. — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If my brother hits any creature I catch it quicker than any dog can. Who acts: brother, I. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 108

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If my brother hits any creature I catch it quicker than any dog can.

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**Who acts:** brother, I · **What happens:** hit, catch · **To what, where:** creature

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:4:108
# text = If my brother hits any creature I catch it quicker than any dog can.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	quicker	quick	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | my brother | any creature |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme creature=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | present | I | creature |  |  |  | quick *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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